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If young actors ask me things, I always tell them to get on set and watch how it's done. If you can, watch the people that you like, how they work.

David Duchovny

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David Duchovny
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 7
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New York City
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David William Duchovny
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Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird.
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There is never a personal-life connection between my characters and myself. I'm a professional and I can access what I need to access, so there's no bleed-over. I didn't need to believe in aliens to play Mulder. As for my personal life, everything is fantastic right now.
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Our human nature is exactly the same as it was 500 years ago, let alone five years ago.
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A bath tub, apparently, was the first thing I wanted to be.
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What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.
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I think [kids] enjoy reading, but it's a different world now. There are a lot of competitors for the imaginative attention.
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I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.
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Sometimes when I'm swimming, I think that maybe someday I'll put my red Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I'll donate it to the Smithsonian. They can stuff it with two plums and a gherkin and put it on display.
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It's almost obscene when you see people who haven't matured, who haven't changed, who don't have the weight of years on them. So that's interesting to me - to think about playing him into the future, anew.
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My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do.
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